If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nearly every BRCA mutation carrier's main concern is how to avoid the fate of relatives who have had, and possibly died from,… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
“Mutation load has been proposed as a likely explanation for the persistence of common, heritable, and harmfulmental disorders like autism and schizophrenia.” — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species.… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
There is some research that suggests that viruses like the flu are really actually kind of at the razor's edge when it… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“The bradys must hold that, on the average, cumulative selection has to add a little information to the genome at each step.… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When it comes to the whole debate today over evolution versus creation, Jesus affirmed the early chapters of Genesis were accurate when… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“You can't stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome that fear. I have… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a divorce-which really… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Mutations are exciting. They try to fix 'em when they come out. Did you see the two-headed baby they killed last month… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
D.N.A. sequences change by mutations, and the idea behind the molecular clock is that those changes occur at, more or less, a… — Mark Stoneking Copy Share Image
Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are ... — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I… — Arca Copy Share Image
World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed… — John Green Copy Share Image
How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be… — John Smith Copy Share Image
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal. — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image